Pretty bridges

I used to cross this bridge over the C&D canal in Delaware often.

Google Image for "Santiago Calatrava" and spend half an hour down the rabbit hole. Here's a sample:

In reply to Duke:^^thats awesome!

4cylndrfury wrote: drove this one in the keys...felt like you were driving to Africa

Please!

Up until 2000, the longest in the world, period. Now the longest over water.

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Guinness: Longest bridge over water (continuous), since 1969

And this is one ugly mug too!

Plain, boring and bumpy.

Now the Liberty Bridge In Greeneville SC is nice.

Just up the road from me....

Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC:

I've driven across this one a time or two. If you can pronounce it, you are probably from Michigan.

The 16th century Chinese knew how to make it happen.

giant, looks familliar. Ours was just bigger. :)

I'm on an iPad and can't figure out how to show a pic, so look here at the Nicholson bridge. http://photocamel.com/forum/hdr-photography/43350-nicholson-bridge-pennsylvania.html

Portland's (aka Bridgetown's) bridges aren't all necessarily pretty, but each can be picturesque (well, except maybe the Marquam)...

St. Johns bridge

Steel Bridge

Hawthorne Bridge

Burnside Bridge

Morrison Bridge

Fremont Bridge

Broadway Bridge

Then there's the Sellwood bridge, which was just moved, IIRC, 60 ft north, so that it could be used while its replacement was being built...

Skipping Ross Island, Marquam, Interstate, and probably forgetting some...

Maroon92 wrote: I've driven across this one a time or two. If you can pronounce it, you are probably from Michigan.

I was starting to freak out that no one was going to post the big Mac. As a kid, crossing it meant vacation and fun. As a college student, crossing it the other way meant I was mostly home. As an adult my kids and I play the "who can see it first" game. I love the Mackinac bridge.

A little info on the Ravenel Bridge. Extreme Engineering did a show about it. At the time it was the longest cable stay bridge in North America. I don't know if it still is. Pretty interesting though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVQhkH8f5Cg

I still say the Grace Memorial had more character though.

And what the hell is my son doing on here at 1:30? You're supposed to be working.

Bridge over Carroll Creek in Frederick, MD. It even has its own website and is fairly famous. I have seen people from all over the country coming to take pictures of it.

mrjoshm wrote: Didn't yinz know, it's quantity that really counts!

Good to see that the "bridge to nowhere" now goes somewhere.

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Bridge of the Gods

Lake Champlain Bridge. Less than 2 years old.

Simple and elegant. No truth to the rumor that Champ lives below it.

mazdeuce wrote:

Maroon92 wrote: I've driven across this one a time or two. If you can pronounce it, you are probably from Michigan.

I was starting to freak out that no one was going to post the big Mac. As a kid, crossing it meant vacation and fun. As a college student, crossing it the other way meant I was mostly home. As an adult my kids and I play the "who can see it first" game. I love the Mackinac bridge.

I was wondering when the Mac would show up!

The Castleton on Hudson is one on the highlights of when I drive to Mass. My wife hates to drive this stretch of the trip.

there's a bunch of bridges in the Winterset, Iowa area that some people think are pretty cool... and i saw every... single... one... of them over a 3 hour period last summer..

yamaha wrote: Sunshine Skyway bridging Tampa/St. Pete with Bradenton......on a clear evening, you can glimpse this sight from the north shore of Anna Marie Isle.

Is Skyway Jack's diner still under there? I've eaten some dangerous breakfast in that place.